Bug#1006556: lintian: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file and copyright-refers-to-symlink-license seem to be about the same issue
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
I did this change to a debian/copyright file (at least I think that
changes caused what I describe below):
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
- License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL file, always
+ License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL", always
pointing to the latest version of the GPL.
Before this change, lintian argued:
copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
Afterwards it argued:
copyright-refers-to-symlink-license usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
I don't see why this should make a difference nor why there are two
different lintian tags for seemingly the same issue.
(And yes, I noticed it via Lintian Overrides. :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.38-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5
ii clzip 1.13-1
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.21.1
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.1
ii file 1:5.41-2
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii gpg 2.2.27-3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b8
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b2
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-1.1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.27-1+b1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b3
ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b4
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.1
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b4
ii libencode-perl 3.16-1+b1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1.1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1.1
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-1
ii libio-prompt-tiny-perl 0.003-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-1
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1.1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.122-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b8
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.009-1+b1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.023+ds-1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.023+ds-1
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-1
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.27-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b3
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-2
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b9
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-1+b1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b4
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b3
ii liburi-perl 5.10-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.83+ds-1+b1
ii lzip 1.23-1
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.10.1-1
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.34.0-3
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-26
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.38-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.60-1
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